Welcome to Defining Moments of Leadership, a podcast hosted by Marsha Acker. We’re joined today by guest Christopher Curley, where we will deep dive into leadership in organizational settings and how it’s just as important to be paying attention to the collective leadership system you’re creating, as it is to be thinking about your own leadership. Christopher is an Agile Coach, leading a team of coaches helping to shepherd a global enterprise technology organization to achieve their transformation goals. While it’s important to have a model for your own leadership, it’s just as important to have a model for collective leadership. Some of the most impactful work a leadership team can do is to be aligned on how they are co-leading and what’s the atmosphere they want to create and what’s the atmosphere they are actually creating and what do they want to work on closing?

Christopher’s Bio

Christopher has been an Agile practitioner since 2003, when he was first introduced to Scrum. Since then, he has served as a team scrum master and an agile coach for organizations, portfolio teams, and planning teams making the turn toward business agility. He’s worked with software, hardware, and infrastructure teams in the financial, publishing, education, and technology sectors.

Christopher graduated from Penn State University, with BAs in political science and history. His studies focused on how communities come together to set goals, define action plans, and measure the results of their collaborative efforts. As an alumnus, he volunteered with Penn State’s Schreyer Institute for Innovation and Learning, and he has been a guest lecturer at Duke University, and the University of Edinburgh.

Christopher lives in Durham, North Carolina with his beloved wife, Kelly, five rescue dogs at current count, and three horses. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, and playing guitar. He’s an avid reader… when he’s not picking up after his dogs.